According to court filings, the potential settlement is contingent on a written agreement that would see the Jackie Robinson Foundation get the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers contract and relinquish its ...

Jackie Robinson made history on April 15, 1947, when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. While winning Rookie of the Year honors and helping the Dodgers ...

Kontilai, 55, purchased Robinson's Montreal Royals contract for the 1946 season and Robinson's 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers contract for $2 million in 2013, subsequently using their purported value to ...

Mykalai Kontilai, who fraudulently used Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers contracts, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million he stole from investors.

According to court filings, the potential settlement is contingent on a written agreement that would see the Jackie Robinson Foundation get the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers contract and relinquish its ...

A copy of Jackie Robinson's historic contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) Kontilai, 55, obstructed the investigation by forging ...

The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey on Oct. 23, 1945, was an agreement to play for the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' top farm ...